Call-A.P.P.L.E. site revamped

[The Wizard of Oz <Wizard@EmeraldCity.gov>]

	Changes have been made to the Call-A.P.P.L.E. site. We've had a talk 
and decided to go simple. Issues in PDF form will be made available 
through an auto-mailer.

	The current issue is the 30'th anniversary issue. I'll be putting out 
another one real soon now. I've been asked to delay mine for a week or 
so to give people a chance to read the current issue. We've changed from 
a monthly format to a quarterly format to give our writers a chance to 
have a bit of a break. In my case this seems to have backfired somewhat. 
Of five promised articles everybody has backed out until the next issue. :-(

	Finding content is tough. Finding new content is tougher. As a result, 
I am a little more liberal than Bill. Since there is a *NIX layer under 
OS X, and Apple// emulators run under *NIX (come to think about it there 
was an Applesoft interpreter designed to run directly under Linux) I 
also accept and write generic and *NIX articles. Apple themselves have 
made a link at a user group meeting I attended a number of years ago 
when they said (off the record) a good alternative for those who can't 
run OS X is FreeBSD. My own preference for articles are how to articles. 
There are some reviews out there but they look like the authors are just 
copying notes from the box and manual (some times that's a good thing - 
just not all the time).

	If anybody would like to write an article for the July issue (free) or 
has a paying advertiser I can be contacted at 
mpfaifferTAcallappleTODorg. Of course I mangled the e-mail address since 
I get around 40-90 pieces of spam daily. I'll respond with a different 
account since my ISP is (to say the least) very anal as to which 
addresses can be used through their mail server. As an aside, it occurs 
to me Americans may be breaking their own laws if they descramble the 
address... Hmm... I'll have to come up with something simpler to satisfy 
that regulation... In the mean time I'm sure people will find other 
means to locate my address. ;-)

	On a related note, Bill has asked me to pass along anything urgent 
related to the web site and his other projects.

	If people here would be kind enough to spread this message around to 
appropriate areas I'd appreciate it. There is only so much one person 
can know. As an older guy I can't keep up with the under 40 crowd quite 
as much as I used to.

				Later
				Mike